So glad someone is finally testing the spectra of these LEDs!
@Elvewizzy.8 ай бұрын
I'm just glad these are much more affordable already.
@troykirchenbauer8 ай бұрын
I just installed Pautix 24v IP65 RGB IC addressable. They are 10cm per meter vs 5, but about half the price. They are bright and in my application do not require power injection which is so awesome. I am adjusting from the ws2015 5050 strips, but the neon effect and rick solid nature of these strips is outstanding. Eliminating the extra power injection wires from my aluminum channels makes it so clean and easy.
@IntermitTech8 ай бұрын
I recently saw those also but didn't get them because they also had the 10cm zones and very clearly mention they are still only for indoor use so not really waterproof so it's a bit confusing what it would add vs the normal indoor version.
@troykirchenbauer8 ай бұрын
@@IntermitTech excellent point. They do say waterproof and indoor. My experience so far has been that IP65 does just fine in the aluminum channels on the roofline of my house in terms of weatherproofing. Also the silicone sleeves, both the diffused and clear varieties, are more trouble than they are worth in my view. Either way, thanks for all you do to educate and advance this hobby. I run everything on your controllers and send everyone who asks to your website and videos.
@-djs8 ай бұрын
Hi Quin, I hope you are well, unrelated to the video, I wanted to thankyou for keep pushing me to join discord, I just did this last hour and I am glad I did, I have half a dozen of your finished boards mainly quads and uno's, but I got some plain esp32 from your store to play with, and a huge thank you to Paulo /CeeJay for helping me today, a complete stranger. Thanks so much as always for what you do and for getting me into discord!, Take care
@IntermitTech8 ай бұрын
Hey awesome you joined, lots of smart people there very much including Paulo/Ceejay!
@-djs8 ай бұрын
@@IntermitTech So I immediately found out, I have avoided all social media apart from KZbin because I didn't have room for negativity in my life, but I am so far glad I have joined your group, I may not be in it all day everyday but I am certainly learning a lot from previous posts by others. Thanks again.
@tablatronix8 ай бұрын
I found the same variations in diffusion, the wider strips (pcb only) had perfect diffusion
@juffle8 ай бұрын
I use one BTF COB RGB ic and one BTF COB WW ic both 24v together in a channel and hook to a dig-uno using both channel as a pseudo RGBWW ic strip
@RA-lj5jd8 ай бұрын
Cool, considering a setup like this in my livingroom, any info/pictures would be apreciated.. :)
@ronaldronald88198 ай бұрын
Cheers! You are an excellent guide in LED land.
@llibressal20 күн бұрын
Are the COB addressable strips generally more powerful/m than the big chunky silicone-encased 50/50 strips?
@andrewfidel22208 ай бұрын
Interesting, I just bought some 12V WS2814 based strip because I wanted decent power, good white, at most one injection point for 5m, and had to be either 10mm or 12mm wide (I have 10mm V channels, 12mm can be made to work but wider would lose too much contact with the channel). The spec on the ws2814a says cri of 90+, would be interesting to see 3rd party measurement.
@franks68568 ай бұрын
Have you looked at the 24V BTF FCOB Addressable WS2811 white lights? They have different options including a tunable white light version. I would be interested to see how they compare to analog white light.
@IntermitTech8 ай бұрын
Yes, that one will be in the Addressable White video, it's pretty decent but has it's own issues too.
@kevinhilton86838 ай бұрын
@@IntermitTech Be interested to see your findings on this as I have two of these WS2811 5m strips. What analog white strips do you like?
@marshes8 ай бұрын
@@IntermitTechhey quindor, looking forward to seeing this. Any idea when it’ll come out? The idea of a dimmable temperature adjusting light strip at the top of my closet sounds excellent, but don’t have a clue which strip to buy. I’m also looking at a double row cob light too for the extra lumen but might be overkill, hard to gauge and nothing to compare it to.
@JameStitel7 ай бұрын
Worth mentioning that the currently shipped QuinLED Dig Uno v3 (probably other boards as well?) comes with WLED 0.13 which does NOT support this RGBW strip's color channels configuration (the W channel is swapped), luckily WLED 0.14 should include settings to configure this... Got a bit worried after starting with WLED and getting the overwhelming recommendations for QuinLED Dig boards and this particular RGBW strip as the best white addressable, connecting it and then finding it not to work! 😨
@IntermitTech7 ай бұрын
Not sure when you got your board but since last year November they should come with v0.14 on them! We also have install.quinled.info to make updating as easy as possible!
@JameStitel7 ай бұрын
@@IntermitTech Got one just this week, but luckily as you mention the updating was easy!
@alexandrsolntsev23804 ай бұрын
Thx for good news! Good luck!
@pepijarak33938 ай бұрын
Hello can you tell me what you think about RGB CCT and its purpose. I can't find a specific video about this type of stripping. It seems that they are the best thing that is a mix between white and warm light with RGB only that they cannot be controlled individually. I want to buy 50 m to light my house with and they even have 95 + cri.
@jdueheue8 ай бұрын
I suggest a video about reliability of WS1812 / SK6812 etc LEDs, since in my >5 years of working with them, found out that the average MTBF is
@IntermitTech8 ай бұрын
Hmm, that's interesting. In your case, are you talking about pixels? I do have more of an overview then the average person I think because of the thousands of people who drop by on the Discord sever. From that sk6812 seems a bit more failure prone then generic ws2812b, but not by that much either.
@jdueheue8 ай бұрын
@IntermitTech talking about SK6812 RGBW strips 144/meter from BTF lighting, in aluminum channels, 70% brightness with only white LED on most of the time. replaced already 2 times, every time the revision of the leds is a new one according to how they look like. got several reports from other users with similar experience
@SS-hc6sp4 ай бұрын
You da man!! I appreciate you!
@Ryne7856 ай бұрын
What is the best Cold-White FCOB strip on the market right now? I am looking at a fully analogue strip, however cannot determine which one to get.
@Aragile8 ай бұрын
Hey! I was setting up SK6812 RGBW 12v stip with QuinLed Uno, and accidentally mixed the + and - on the strip connection to the controller. Now it switches to a weird pattern (whites with some rgb elements) when set to 40%, or higher brightness.Does anybody know what I need to replace now - the ESP32, Quinled powerboard or the LED strip? Thank you!
@IntermitTech8 ай бұрын
Poh, that's a tough one, without another strip or controller that's going to be very hard to figure out...
@floriskuipers49258 ай бұрын
Have you heard of 12V adressable LED stings? They claim to use ws2811 chips but the 'blobs' that contain the LEDs are too small for that, they look like they contain only a 5050 package but claimed power consumption is lower than ws2815 chips would have. I wrote a much longer comment with some example links but that got deleted without any notificaton. If they actually are 12V single LED adressable that would be awesome for longer runs. Any thoughts?
@IntermitTech8 ай бұрын
I know there is one new kind of variant out there by not sure what they are using inside. Maybe a combination of COB LEDs and resistors to accept 12v natively, it is possible in that sense. But it's likely a clone chip, not real ws2811. Can work fine though, but haven't seen it myself. Links best through Discord!
@fe3478 ай бұрын
Do you have any video that show COB configuration on WLED? For example, how many leds should I configure in WLED for 2m of COB 720leds/meter. 1440 ?
@IntermitTech8 ай бұрын
Check the real world power sheet for the amount of zones. The 720LEDs RGB has 20 zones per meter and thus for 2 meter you enter 40 zones/LEDs.
@haroldgillespie98255 ай бұрын
I went to the link and all 3 options show "1 pieces at most per customer" and I cannot increase the quantity, only 1 5 meter strand won't do my project. Any suggestions on how to increase the quality?
@brentpolk24312 ай бұрын
I have a project of which I would like your advice on...
@IntermitTech2 ай бұрын
Come to the Discord server! Lots of smart LED people there.
@walera39678 ай бұрын
how wide are these new COB strips? I was looking at the non-white RGB COBs you mention in this video but the 12mm width makes it difficult to match an aluminum channel. Seems like all V-shaped ones are 10mm
@IntermitTech8 ай бұрын
Yeah, I generally just get 12mm profiles because some of the newer strips are indeed 12mm only. I believe the RGBW one in the video is actually back to 10mm since it's a bit less powerful.
@aiwditbh6 ай бұрын
How do do you setup 24v,21w/m,720leds/m addressable led in Wled? Should one meter be (20sections of 5cm) be treated as 20 leds with max current=440mA per led (21w/m) or should it be a number of actual leds=720 with amperage=12mA?
@IntermitTech6 ай бұрын
It works in zones (yes 20 per meter) and thus also fill in the MA per zone/LED! You got it right. :)
@GeorgiPenin8 ай бұрын
How do you handle diffusing for the RGB strip, do you simply place it in a clear channel? You mention it is well diffused on its own, but there are still some PCB parts that are not very pretty to be directly visible :) I am kinda looking at a DYI Nanoleaf project and all tutorials use pretty aggressive diffusers, but then again all of them also use the regular discrete diode LED strips.
@IntermitTech8 ай бұрын
Yeah for the LEDs themselves you really don't much extra diffusion on the RGB version if the strip is going to be directly visible maybe a little bit to obfuscate it a bit could be nice. In regards to a nanoleaf clone you'd want something that diffuses a bit but mostly acts like a light guide and spreader so that the whole "leaf" lights up evenly so those are 2 different things I think. Still, I think the 24v RGB COB could work very nice for that since at least you don't have to worry about seeing individual diodes!
@airwebber8 ай бұрын
Happy Holidays, I would like to use the RGB IC DC24 720's in an about a 13 x 16 room so that four sets of the 5m (rather have a little extra). How would us suggest to wire them please?
How far away do you think the video on addressable white lights is? I would love to find an adressable 12v or 24v WWA kind of strip with as good as possible CRI. Have you been able to find something like that?
@IntermitTech5 ай бұрын
The CCT COB strips are currently the best white strips out there, especially in regard to CRI. The WWA I have tested in the past still didn't do too great, in CRI but certainly also in brightness. Video I'm not 100% sure yet when it's coming.
@smussadi15 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@cosimop15395 ай бұрын
Hi, I'm searching for a strip led, cob, addressable, and with a dedicated white channel that can be regulated in Kelvin. Does exist or will exist anything in your opinion?
@IntermitTech5 ай бұрын
Regulated in Kelvin as in dual white? A very new option that's become available is the ws2805 which works with the most recent alphas of WLED. That has dual white channels so can do CCT.
@cosimop15395 ай бұрын
@@IntermitTech exactly, like a CCT. Thank you for you advice. I ll check it right now. Have a good day!
@cosimop15395 ай бұрын
Have you found any of these in cob? It seems only in smc@@IntermitTech
@argjend708 ай бұрын
Do you recommend using FCOB SPI RGBW IC LED 24 as kitchen under cabinet light. I really like the mix between the RGB and White, I want to use the white as a main light, but I'm concerned for the quality of the light...
@IntermitTech8 ай бұрын
Regarding the RGBW strip and white light it's the best out there right now and it's a decent CRI90 as I show in the video. It's certainly not the best white light you can get LED strip wise (as I explain the video) but if you want it combined with addressable and RGB it is and for normal main lighting it'll be fine. I also think for kitchen under cabinet it's fine too, I wouldn't use it as main lighting for cooking or something like that though. You want CRI95 for that.
@argjend708 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot for the explanation. I found your videos very useful 👍
@MudjunkiesMS8 ай бұрын
You said these aren’t as bright as the non waterproof version…are they still brighter than the older 2811/2812 60leds/meter strips? How durable does the casing feel? Do you have any good solid ways of attaching wires to them? I use led strips on atv’s and side by sides that constantly get submerged in mud
@IntermitTech8 ай бұрын
If say they are pretty sturdy since they are basically fully enclosed in silicone. Brightness is still pretty fair, I'd say at least on par. Wires I haven't looked into too much but if you need to open it up that would be a bother for sure so I'd recommend getting the length you really need.
@peterzsilak5 ай бұрын
Hello Everyone, I bought this LED strip: FCOB SPI RGBW IC LED Strip Light WS2814 Addressable 784 LED Dream Color 10mm DC24V IP30 SK6812 High Flexible FOB COB Lights RA90 And I would like to control that with QuinLed. Can the QuinLED-Dig-Uno handle the DC24V led strip or only the QuinLED-Dig-Quad can do this? Please help me in this question!
@IntermitTech5 ай бұрын
Hey hey, both boards can run the 24v LED strip natively without a problem!
@peterzsilak5 ай бұрын
Hi @@IntermitTech , Thank you for the answer. In case of the mentioned strip, should I have to setup something on the board or just enough to plug the led and use 24V power supply for that?
@IntermitTech5 ай бұрын
If you are using my pre-assembled boards you can just plug it all in and it should work automatically
@peterzsilak5 ай бұрын
Hi @@IntermitTech, Thank you, Is there any wall mount control possibility for the Wled? I'm thinking maybe it could be controlled from the NSPanel Pro kiosk browser. Is there a better solution for this?
@AndrehHimself5 ай бұрын
Hey folks, does anybody knows how to connect the pins of a ws2814 fcob RGBW in wled/esp32? I couldn't find any video about it, and I don't want to use a non WLED option
@IntermitTech5 ай бұрын
I'm a bit confused by the question, if we're talking a Dig controller you just simply connect the positive, data and GND side with a proper voltage (same as the strip) supply also connected to the Dig board and done! If you're going a more DIY approach, take a look at the WLED wiki.
@kimpassey56188 ай бұрын
Wished I knew how to solder the cob addressables. I have so many spare strips and they don't make quick connectors😂
@IntermitTech8 ай бұрын
You should be able to bud 2 pieces together and then basically make a solder bridge between them, that's worked for me at least.
@kimpassey56188 ай бұрын
@@IntermitTech yessir. Just wish they made quick connectors for these. I noticed the three prongs are staggered differently than most of the quick connectors and the only ones I can find are from Germany . I just custom fit these on my e-bikes and EUCs and I have so many fragments I would love to be able to join together. If they already have solder on them I can usually do it but it's so hard to pre-solder the tabs lol. Thanks for the awesome videos bro
@kimpassey56188 ай бұрын
@@IntermitTech Good to know somebody does it. I'll try it again with a finer solder tip
@jerryz13138 ай бұрын
@Quindor how did you configure the COB RGBW 24v in WLED? I have similar strips and I designate 6812 in the config but I get inconsistent results. Also, do you config 720 LED’s? (Per/m)
@IntermitTech8 ай бұрын
Like this quinled.info/quinled-dig2analog-suggested-configuration-in-wled/ and then 70 LEDs I believe.
@markxexar93864 ай бұрын
@@IntermitTech I just got a bookcase setup with this. It was driving me crazy to get the config correct. Google did not show many good configs to try. I managed to get SK6812 RGBW chosen as the strip type. I got the color settings which seemed to be close enough, but the green was rather too white, and the red was pretty weak. While doing a final search I came across this tip. I have to say it is rather hidden because I am not using dig2analog at all, directly powering from DigUno. Trying the settings though is perfect and everything is good now. Maybe you could find a way to make this setting more discoverable for folks powering them from DigUnos or DigQuads.
@gerryf70158 ай бұрын
Do you have a direct BTF Lighting affiliate link. Have issues with AliExpress. Need to get 30m of the IP68 COB.
@IntermitTech8 ай бұрын
I do not, I generally link to Aliexpress.
@kylegurney86108 ай бұрын
How do you feel the 24v ip68 would do for Christmas lights around the house and also using them year round? Would you be happy with them or would you rather go 12v for more precise year round automations?
@timalagoz59748 ай бұрын
How do I connect these strips to an eps32?
@IntermitTech8 ай бұрын
Best would be to use a proper controller like one of my QuinLED Dig boards.
@chrisbanbury6 ай бұрын
What does RGBWW mean? Is that different from RGBW?
@andrewlheureux97436 ай бұрын
It has a second white diode. Usually rgbw will be red green blue and a white (5600k) vs rgbww having red green blue 3200k and 5600k
@IntermitTech6 ай бұрын
RGBW is normally RGB+W of any shade. RGBWW is a bad term but likely refers to RGBW with the white being warm white. But in theory it could also mean RGB + 2x white, but it's just bad terms. Please use the following terms: RGB RGBW (one white, whatever color) RGB+CCT (two color whites, generally one warm and one cold) Anything else is just confusing and can be misinterpreted.
@nicholasarena91798 ай бұрын
Hello. Could you design a set up for my room for me? I would gladly pay you a design fee, plus buy from you to draw a schematic that I can follow and install.
@IntermitTech8 ай бұрын
Sorry I don't provide such services I try to provide the information so that everyone can do it themselves! But I get it takes a bit of time to learn and do so regardless.
@nicholasarena91798 ай бұрын
@@IntermitTech Understand. Is there a single addressable RGB LED Strip that you could suggest for a continuous run of 60 feet?
@christelting13596 ай бұрын
I see what they are doing. Same addressable chip but just controlling multiple groups as the same color. But it seems foolish that the led manufacturers can't innovate and create new chips and sub address multiple LEDs. Different signaling or more signal traces. Where is the innovation? I should think it would make it actually cheaper up to a point.
@IntermitTech6 ай бұрын
Euhm, there are clear reasons why things are as they are though. I explain this in my higher voltage LED strip video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGLQm3eYlLVje68si=T3L_sP75ONgc38b3 Maybe it will help you understand a bit better why these things function as they do. It's not a chip problem.